Sender: Gary Weston <•••@••.•••>
With regard to the idea that deregulation and competition in the telecom
business will be a boon to consumers, I'd like to point out a tiny bit in
the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat (owned by the NYT) today. Both Pacific
Bell and GTE have filed for increases in local telephone rates. The
reason they have given to the state PUC is that competition in the local
call business, which began only a few months ago, has increased their
costs enough to warrant an increase.
That isn't exactly what the deregulators promised us.
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